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The path grew steeper the higher they climbed, and Scout doubted she would even know where to step if Daisy with her heavily augmented body weren’t blazing the trail. Gert was widening her bit of it enough for Shadow to follow delicately behind her, only occasionally getting buried under a loose drift that fell like a mini-landslide down the side of the rock face on either side of the trail.
At last, the path emerged from the fissure in the rock, ending on a much narrower cliff than the last one. Scout stayed close to the rock face that loomed ahead of them, but Daisy stepped out further to get a look below.
“What’s going on?” Scout asked, not wanting to venture out to look herself. She wasn’t afraid of heights, not after being tossed off a platform on Amatheon Orbiter 1 and survivin
